YouTube’s Sorting: Dealing with Las Vegas
Article: YouTube alters search algorithm over fake Las Vegas conspiracy videos On October 1st, Las Vegas quickly became a city of infamy. After a mass-shooting left 58 dead and over 500 injured, the city of sin quickly became home to the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Naturally, we wanted to know more about […]
Web of Lies: A Commentary on Power, PageRank, and Fake News
The term ‘fake news’ has been thrown around a lot lately. Maybe the term’s growing use is due to the president’s utilization of it. But, upon inspection, the fact that there is more ‘fake news’ abound than there was before makes plenty of sense for a few seemingly simple reasons. We have more easily accessible […]
Buffalo’s Braess Paradox
Article source: New York Times The Scajaquada Expressway in Buffalo, New York, has long been a source of contention for local residents. The major highway cuts through historic Delaware Park, home of the Frank Lloyd Wright house, the Buffalo Zoo, and lots of natural beauty. In a park that should be accessible to residents and visitors […]
How Time Preferences and Level of Risk Can Affect the Nash Bargaining Solution
The Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS), as presented in lecture, was a static model in which both the utility and bargaining power of each person was fixed in time. In reality, however, these variables are constantly changing as each bargainer reevaluates their position. Two variables that contribute to this time-dependence are the bargainers’ time preference and […]
Link Ranks
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/pagerank-9.html Like in all theoretical methods, Google’s PageRank is susceptible in practice to a variety of other factors, many based upon human behavior. The creator of PageRank himself, Lawrence Page, lists a few of these potential influences as the level of visibility of links, the positioning of links within the webpage, the distancing between certain […]
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